NS_ERROR_NET_RESET on scholar.google when retreiving citation dataset

reinald
xubuntu 22.04
Firefox 115.12esr
Zotero 6.0.35
Zotero Connector 5.0.140

In a growing number of cases zotero fails to retreive plain citations from scholar.google.com.

The problem could not be solved by changing the google language, using a private tab or plain firefox-profile, fresh installation of previous firefox release or changing to another desktop system.

Debugging of the add-on seams to reveal that there is an error condition "NS_ERROR_NET_RESET" causing "0 bytes transferred" while trying to retrieve the page containing the relevant dataset, f.e.:

https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar.bib?q=info:keHzd6GSSuEJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&scisdr=ClHudoE7EObDwz1uu6U:AFWwaeYAAAAAZoloo6WQAMtgBtK92Ul7uDCFRLU&scisig=AFWwaeYAAAAAZoloo2TqzGFj4imEoXlJL4VUArc&scisf=4&ct=citation&cd=-1&hl=en

It is however possible to load this page in manually by pasting the url

I am using zotero for some years now without any issues. Any idea what to do? Thanks so much.
  • reinald
    PS: Changing proxy-setting does not show effect either: Default is "no proxy" but using proxy in university network shows the same result.
  • dstillman
    edited July 7, 2024
    For Google Scholar, likely just site access limits. You're trying to save too many items at once and are being blocked by Google.
  • reinald
    OK, thanks for that hint. In this case the workaround is to save as bibTeX and import it to zotero...

    I dont't know where this limit is and if it only applies to capturing via browser plugin but I was not saving more than two dozen datasets in a week and probably less than 200 in a year ... I'm also wondering how google's tracing is done. Using a proxy or VPN should help when not logged in to google... Anyhow: Thanks! I will keep an eye on it.

    Best,
    Reinald
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